Pulitzer Prize 2016 winners include Hamilton, Barbarian Days

The 2016 Pulitzer Prize winners for excellence in literature, journalism, music, and photography — the 100th set since awards were first handed out in 1917 — were announced Monday during a livestream session on YouTube.

Upon winning the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway hit Hamiltonbecame the first musical to do so since 2010’s Next to Normal. William Finnegan’s memoirBarbarian Days: A Surfing Life nabbed the Pulitzer in the Biography or Autobiography category, while The Associated Press won the gold medal for Public Service.

Other publications honored as a whole include The Los Angeles Times (Breaking News Reporting), The New York Times (International Reporting), The Washington Post (National Reporting) and the Tampa Bay Times (Local Reporting). The New Yorker also picked up its first two Pulitzers for Criticism (Emily Nussbaum) and Feature Writing (Kathryn Schulz) following a 2015 decision to expand certain categories to include magazines.

The presiding board for the 2016 awards includes writers from The New York Times, The New Yorker, Bloomberg News, and The Wall Street Journal. Twenty winners will receive a cash prize of $10,000 for their work, while the journalism category’s Public Service winner (a news organization, not an individual writer) will receive a gold medal.

Last year’s roster of winners in the books categories featured the likes of Anthony Doerr’s WWII-set novel All The Light We Cannot See, Elizabeth Kolbert’s nonfiction publication The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, and Gregory Pardo’s poetry collection, Digest, among others.

Watch the full 2016 Pulitzer Price announcement in the video above and see the full list of winners below.

Journalism

Public Service: The Associated Press

Breaking News Reporting: The Los Angeles Times

Investigative Reporting: Leonora LaPeter Anton and Anthony Cormier of the Tampa Bay News and Michael Braga of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune